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[Korea Report] Seoul Central Mosque is a tourist attraction

[Korea Report] Seoul Central Mosque is a tourist attraction

Korea is a homogenous country and its majority religions are Buddhism, followed by Christianity. But as Korea grows as one of world’s advanced countries, more and more people from various countries come and live in Korea. Seoul as the capital city of Korea feels much different since then. Area for foreigners such as in Itaewon […]

Officials Of Egypt’s Highest Appeal Court To Suspend Work In Protest To President’s Bid To have Absolute Power

Officials Of Egypt’s Highest Appeal Court To Suspend Work In Protest To President’s Bid To have Absolute Power

Egyptian protesters sit next to tents in Tahrir square, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. Egyptian state television says the country’s highest appeal court has decided to suspend its work nationwide to protest the president’s decrees giving himself nearly absolute powers. Egyptian protesters clash with security forces near Tahrir square, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, […]

Owners Of Kabul Bank Send Huge Amount Of Money Out Of War-Torn Afghanistan Illegally

Owners Of Kabul Bank Send Huge Amount Of Money Out Of War-Torn Afghanistan Illegally

In this Sept. 1, 2010, file photo, Afghan soldiers chat in front of the main office of Kabul Bank in Kabul, Afghanistan. A new report offers previously undisclosed details about how the owners of Kabul Bank and their friends and relatives got rich off $861million in fraudulent loans _ a Ponzi scheme using customer deposits […]

Annual Tazaungdine Hot Air Balloon Festival Opens In Taunggyi, Myanmar

Annual Tazaungdine Hot Air Balloon Festival Opens In Taunggyi, Myanmar

Contestants prepare paper lamps to decorate under hot air balloons during the annual Tazaungdine hot air balloon festival in Taunggyi, southern Shan State, Myanmar, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. In this photo taken on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, festival goers watch as contestants prepare to release a hot air balloon during the annual Tazaungdine hot air […]

Garments tragedy raises many questions about workers’ safety in Bangladesh

Garments tragedy raises many questions about workers’ safety in Bangladesh

A national mourning and sabotage allegation can not hide sheer negligence behind the latest and the biggest ever garments tragedy in Bangladesh that left at least 110 workers roasted alive on Saturday. The National Mourning Day was observed on Tuesday over the casualties in Ashulia garment factory fire. The national flag was hoisted half-mast at […]

Bangladesh’s Alliance Of 18 Opposition Parties Holds Grand Rally In Dhaka

Bangladesh’s Alliance Of 18 Opposition Parties Holds Grand Rally In Dhaka

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister and Chairwoman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia attends a grand rally in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, Nov. 28, 2012. Bangladesh’s main opposition alliance of the 18 opposition parties led by BNP, will observe a road blockade program on Dec. 9 across the country demanding restoration of the caretaker […]

More Than 600,000 Land Mines Planted By Turkey Along 900-Kilometer Border With Syria

More Than 600,000 Land Mines Planted By Turkey Along 900-Kilometer Border With Syria

In this June 17, 2010 file photo land mine experts work in mined land in the Karkemish archaeological site at the Turkey-Syria border in Gaziantep province, Turkey. Starting in the 1950s, Turkish forces planted more than 600,000 U.S.-made “toe poppers” _ mines designed to maim, not kill _ and other land mines along much of […]

Sudanese From Meseria Tribe Rally In Khartoum Asking Early Settlement Of Their Status

Sudanese From Meseria Tribe Rally In Khartoum Asking Early Settlement Of Their Status

Hundreds of Sudanese from the Meseria tribe rally in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. Proclaiming the flashpoint Abyei region Sudanese territory, protesters gathered in front of the African Union headquarters ahead of a deadline for Sudan and South Sudan to settle the area’s status. Hundreds of Sudanese from the Meseria tribe rally in Khartoum, […]

Growing Number Of Rhinos Poached In South Africa Due To Its Horns Wrongly Known To Cure Disease

Growing Number Of Rhinos Poached In South Africa  Due To Its Horns Wrongly Known To Cure Disease

In this photo taken Friday, Nov. 22, 2012, Miles Lappeman, owner of Finfoot Lake Reserve near Tantanana, South Africa, walks past the carcasses of a rhino and it’s calf. South Africa says at least 588 rhinos have been killed by poachers this year alone, 8 rhinos at the Finfoot Lake Reserve, the worst recorded year […]

Gov’t Estimation: More Than 2.5 Million South Koreans Addicted To Smartphones

Gov’t Estimation: More Than 2.5 Million South Koreans Addicted To Smartphones

In this Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012 photo, passengers operate their smartphones on a subway in Seoul, South Korea. Across the entire population, South Korea’s government estimated 2.55 million people are addicted to smartphones, using the devices for 8 hours a day or more, in its first survey of smartphone addiction released earlier this year. In […]

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